Tracks Frank's Wild Years
- Blow Wind Blow
- Innocent When You Dream (78)
- Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)
- Telephone Call From Istanbul
- Cold Cold Ground
- I'll Be Gone
- Hang On St. Christopher
- Straight To The Top (Vegas)
- Please Wake Me Up
- Way Down In The Hole
- Train Song
- Franks Theme
- More Than Rain
- Straight To The Top
- Temptation
- Yesterday Is Here
- I'll Take New York
Release date: 1989-05-24
Run time: 56 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.00
Review Frank's Wild Years / Tom Waits:All the voices in Tom Waits' head come out on this album: the growler (of course), the crooner, the preacher, the screecher, and the Vegas cheese ball. The instrumentation is equally eclectic. (Yep, that's Waits himself playing the "rooster" on the album's best song, "I'll Be Gone". ) More memorable moments: "Innocent When You Dream" (both times), the vocal howling at the end of "Blow Wind Blow", and the lovely coughing fit after "I'll Take New York. " Frank's Wild Years is the musical remains of a theatrical collaboration between Waits and Kathleen Brennan, originally staged in 1986. It contains nuggets of important practical advice, sure-"never drive a car when you're dead" (from "Telephone Call from Istanbul")-but mostly these songs are fantasy freaks. Frank's is big-time dreamer. It's a dreamy album. Sweet dreams. -Dan Leone.
Tracks Back To Front
- Sail On - Commodores
- Hello
- My Destiny
- Dancing On The Ceiling
- Still - Commodores
- Say You Say Me
- Truly
- Do It To Me
- Stuck On You
- Endless Love - Lionel Richie, Diana Ross
- Three Times A Lady - Commodores
- Running With The Night
- Easy - Commodores
- Penny Lover
- Love Oh Love
- All Night Long (All Night)
Release date: 1999-06-18
Run time: 68 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.02
Review Back To Front / Lionel Richie:Lionel's decision to release a second hits compilation within a decade may have had something to do with the fact that sales of the first were overshadowed by a spousal abuse charge; unsurprisingly then, there isn't too much to distinguish this from the other one. Certain critics have commended Lionel for having spurned the whims of fashion and persisted with sentimental love songs like "Say You Say Me" and "Penny Lover", whatever the weather, and, listening to the tacky 1980s synths of the more upbeat "Running With The Night", it's hard to disagree. Lionel's obviously at his most comfortable with the power ballad-so much so that he has no idea when to exercise a little restraint. For all its baggage-the sickly video with that blind girl and its terrible lyrics-there's the chord structure to a good Charles Aznavour song trying to get out of "Hello", but it's drowning in syrup. Perhaps it's time for a reunion of the old band: the inclusion of "Sail On", "Three Times A Lady" and "Easy" (all Commodores songs) suggests as much. -Peter Paphides.
Tracks Best of Chris Isaak
- Speak Of The Devil
- You Owe Me Some Kind Of Love
- King Without A Castle
- I Want You To Want Me
- Somebody's Crying
- Forever Blue
- Wicked Game
- Two Hearts
- Please
- Let's Have A Party
- San Francisco Days
- Let Me Down Easy
- Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing
- Can't Do A Thing (To Stop Me)
- Blue Hotel
- Blue Spanish Sky
- Dancin'
- Only The Lonely
Release date: 2006-09-18
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.97
Review Best of Chris Isaak / Chris Isaak:
Tracks Catch Bull at Four
- The Boy With A Moon And Star On His Head
- Silent Sunlight
- Angelsea
- Sweet Scarlet
- Freezing Steel
- Sitting
- 18th Avenue (Kansas City Nightmare)
- Ruins
- Can't Keep It In
- O' Caritas
Release date: 2000-08-14
Run time: 40 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.70
Review Catch Bull at Four / Cat Stevens:
Tracks Moondance
- Moondance
- These Dreams Of You
- Brand New Day
- Glad Tidings
- Stoned Me
- Come Running
- Caravan
- Crazy Love
- Everyone
- Into The Mystic
Release date: 1986-03-04
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.15
Review Moondance / Van Morrison:Van Morrison went a long way towards defining his wild Irish heart with his first two classic albums: the brooding, introspective Astral Weeks and the expansive, swinging Moondance. If the first was the work of a poet, its sequel was the statement of a musician and bandleader. Moondance is that rare rock album where the band has buffed the arrangements to perfection and where the sax solos instead of the guitar. The band puts out a jazzy shuffle on "Moondance" and plays it soulful on "These Dreams of You". The album includes both Morrison's most romantic ballad ("Crazy Love") and his most haunting ("Into the Mystic"). "And It Stoned Me" rolled off Morrison's tongue like a favourite fable, while "Caravan" told a tale full of emotional intrigue. Moondance stood out in the rock world of 1970 like a grown-up in a kiddie matinee. -John Milward.
Tracks Greatest Hits
- What's New Pussycat? - Tom Jones, Les Reed
- The Young New Mexican Puppeteer - Tom Jones, Johnnie Spence, Orchestra
- It's Not Unusual - Tom Jones, Les Reed
- Till - Tom Jones, Johnnie Spence, Orchestra
- She's A Lady - Tom Jones
- Baby It's Cold Outside - Tom Jones, Cerys Matthews
- Without Love - Tom Jones, Charles Blackwell
- Medley From "The Full Monty" - Tom Jones, Robbie Williams
- (It Looks Like) I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones, Charles Blackwell
- Sexbomb - Tom Jones, Mousse T.
- I'm Coming Home - Tom Jones
- A Boy From Nowhere - Tom Jones
- Burning Down The House - Tom Jones, The Cardigans
- Thunderball - Tom Jones
- If I Only Knew - Tom Jones
- Mama Told Me Not To Come - Tom Jones, Stereophonics
- Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings - Tom Jones, Orchestra, Les Reed
- Love Me Tonight - Tom Jones, Johnnie Spence, Orchestra
- Kiss - Tom Jones, Art Of Noise
- Green Green Grass Of Home - Tom Jones, Les Reed
- Help Yourself - Tom Jones, Kenny Woodman
- Delilah - Tom Jones, Les Reed
- Daughter Of Darkness - Tom Jones
Release date: 2006-04-17
Run time: 79 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.52
Review Greatest Hits / Tom Jones:Released to coincide with his Lifetime Achievement award at the 2003 BRIT Awards, Greatest Hits brings together some of Tom Jones's biggest songs to one CD, including favourites such as "Delilah", "It's Not Unusual", "Kiss", "Mama Told Me Not to Come" and "Green, Green Grass of Home". Combining both the old and new high points of his decades-long career in music, this is an essential introduction to this classic singer and national treasure. -Ted Kord.
Tracks The Very Best of Elton John
- Easier To Walk Away
- Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
- Candle In The Wind
- I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
- Benny And The Jets
- Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
- Sad Songs
- Part Time Love
- I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That
- I'm Still Standing
- Kiss The Bride
- Nikita
- Crocodile Rock
- Passengers
- Your Song
- Pinball Wizard
- Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
- Philadelphia Freedom
- Daniel
- You Gotta Love Someone
- Song For Guy
- Honky Cat
- Blue Eyes
- Bitch Is Back
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart
- Sacrifice
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Someone Saved My Life Tonight
- Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time)
- Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
Release date: 1990-10-01
RRP: £22.99
Price: £7.47
Review The Very Best of Elton John / Elton John:
Tracks Lenny Kravitz Greatest Hits
- Rock 'n' Roll Is Dead
- Are You Gonna Go My Way
- Fly Away
- I Belong To You
- Can't Get You Off My Mind
- Always On The Run
- Believe
- Again
- American Woman
- Let Love Rule
- Stand By My Woman
- Heaven Help
- It Ain't Over 'til It's Over
- Mr Cab Driver
- Black Velveteen
Release date: 2000-10-23
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.99
Review Lenny Kravitz Greatest Hits / Lenny Kravitz:More prolific than D'Angelo and Terence Trent D'Arby combined, one-man rock & soul revivalist Lenny Kravitz kept traditional pop values alive through much of the 1990s. From the Motown-perfect "It Ain't Over Til It's Over" to the Beatlesque "Let Love Rule", Kravitz has always inhabited his influences with a genuine spirit that transcends imitation. The 15 tracks found on Greatest Hits provide a surprisingly coherent reminder of just how much the artist has accomplished in a relatively short time. And even if "Are You Gonna Go My Way" falls short of its Hendrix target, Kravitz's cover of the Guess Who's "American Woman" still rocks in a pleasingly Neanderthal way. An infectious new cut, "Again", fits neatly alongside sturdy Kravitz originals like "Fly Away", "Mr. Cab Driver" and "Black Velveteen", showcasing a talent whose post-modern pop should play well into the new century. -Bill Forman.
Tracks Heartattack and Vine
- Heart Attack And Vine
- Jersey Girl
- Till The Money Runs Out
- In Shades
- Downtown
- Mr Seigal
- On The Nickel
- Ruby's Arms
- Saving All My Love For You
Release date: 1993-05-10
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.50
Review Heartattack and Vine / Tom Waits:Tom Waits's hipster persona began to evaporate at the beginning of the 1980s, but not before he released the transitional- but eminently worthwhile-Heartattack and Vine, which contained "On the Nickel", a Dickensian tale of street life, and "Jersey Girl," a song Bruce Springsteen gave a far wider airing to on his Live 1975-1985 box set. You can hear hints of Waits's style growing more trenchant on songs like "Downtown" and the stark, bluesy title track, which contains the immortal line "Don't you know there ain't no devil / That's just God when he's drunk. " Indeed. -Daniel Durchholz.
Tracks Escape
- Hero
- Heroe
- I Will Survive
- If The World Crashes Down
- No Apagues La Luz
- Love To See You Cry
- She Be The One
- Escape
- Love 4 Fun
- Escapar
- Maybe
- To Love A Woman - Lionel Richie, Enrique Iglesias
- Hero
- One Night Stand
- Maybe
- Don't Turn Off The Lights
Release date: 2003-05-26
Run time: 61 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.47
Review Escape / Enrique Iglesias:If Ricky Martin is the party boy of Latin crossover pop, Enrique Iglesias is a romantic traditionalist in the mould of his dad. On Escape, even his up-tempo, lust-driven tunes such as "Love 4 Fun" and "One Night Stand" are hardly the frantic sweat-fests Martin provides. Escape, Iglesias' first disc since his 1999 Top 40 breakthrough, is already a guaranteed success thanks to its first single "Hero". Title aside, this gooey love song isn't really fitting for its adopted purpose as a post-terror anthem ("You can take my breath away"), but one imagines that won't make much difference. Iglesias is at his best when playing a little sly, like when he appropriates Nelly's "E. I. " chant on "Don't Turn Off the Lights" or makes a barely veiled suggestion of what he really likes about you in the opening lines of "She Be the One. " -Rickey Wright.
Tracks The Best of Tom Jones
- Puppet Man - Tom Jones, Johnnie Spence
- Till - Tom Jones, Johnnie Spence, Orchestra
- I'm Coming Home - Tom Jones, Les Reed, Orchestra
- Somethin' 'Bout You Baby I Like - Tom Jones, Johnnie Spence, Orchestra
- She's A Lady - Tom Jones
- Not responsible - Tom Jones, Johnny Harris, Orchestra
- Help Yourself - Tom Jones, Kenny Woodman
- Thunderball - Tom Jones
- Detroit City - Tom Jones, Charles Blackwell
- (It Looks Like) I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones, Charles Blackwell
- Green Green Grass Of Home - Tom Jones, Les Reed
- Love Me Tonight - Tom Jones, Johnnie Spence, Orchestra
- Chills And Fever - Tom Jones
- What's New Pussycat? - Tom Jones, Les Reed
- Daughter Of Darkness - Tom Jones
- Delilah - Tom Jones, Les Reed
- I (Who Have Nothing) - Tom Jones, Johnnie Spence, Orchestra
- The Young New Mexican Puppeteer - Tom Jones, Johnnie Spence, Orchestra
- It's Not Unusual - Tom Jones, Les Reed
- Without Love - Tom Jones, Charles Blackwell
- Kiss - Tom Jones, Art Of Noise
- Letter to Lucille - Tom Jones
Release date: 2001-05-18
Run time: 69 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.98
Review The Best of Tom Jones / Tom Jones:
Tracks Slippery When Wet
- Let It Rock
- I'd Die For You
- Never Say Goodbye
- Livin On A Prayer
- Wanted Dead Or Alive
- Raise Your Hands
- Wanted Dead Or Alive
- Wild In The Streets
- You Give Love A Bad Name
- Without Love
- Social Disease
Release date: 2001-03-20
Run time: 49 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.84
Review Slippery When Wet / Bon Jovi:Slippery When Wet transformed Bon Jovi from minor league poodle rockers to global superstars, on the back of hit singles "You Give Love A Bad Name", "Never Say Goodbye" and, of course, "Living On A Prayer". It's easy to forget, now that Jon is a film star with a decent haircut and an ever-improving line in blue-collar Springsteen-lite lyrics, quite how silly Bon Jovi were back in the mid-to-late 80s. From the scantily clad carwash girls on the inner sleeve to the "You lost more than that in my back seat. Yeah!" lyrics, the album is blissfully untouched by notions of irony or subtlety. Fortunately, this adds to its charm. With guitarist Richie Sambora and Desmond Child (who has written for and with everyone from Cher to Robbie Williams), Jon Bon Jovi has now produced more than 10 years worth of consistently memorable tunes, and this album contains its fair share of them. Slippery When Wet won't change your world, but it will, undoubtedly, rock it. -Ronita Dutta.
Tracks Teaser and the Firecat
- Peace Train
- Moonshadow
- Changes IV
- The Wind
- Tuesdat's Dead
- Rubylove
- How Can I Tell You
- Bitterblue
- Morning Has Broken
- If I laugh
Release date: 2000-05-29
Run time: 33 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.27
Review Teaser and the Firecat / Cat Stevens:
Tracks Stanley Road
- Pink On White Walls
- Woodcutter's Son
- Time Passes / Steam
- Whirlpools' End
- Out Of The Sinking
- The Changingman
- Wings Of Speed
- I Walk On Gilded Splinters / Porcelain Gods (Part Two)
- You Do Something To Me
- Stanley Road
- Broken Stones
- Porcelain Gods
Release date: 1999-03-29
Run time: 52 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.27
Review Stanley Road / Paul Weller:This album has class and it sees Paul Weller once again firmly in control of every aspect: he wrote all the songs bar a cover of Dr. John's "I Walk on Gilded Splinters"; he co-produced it and, apart from his earthy vocals, he plays guitar, piano, organ and percussion. All the tracks are special, but it's the three hits-"Changingman", "Broken Stones" and the truly wonderful "You Do Something To Me"-that really stand out, as does "Porcelain Gods", which has something of the old Style Council about it. Soulful, the style is underlined by Carleen Anderson's rich backing vocals on five of the tracks. Weller is also joined by some of his other musical chums: Noel Gallagher, Steve Craddock and Steve Winwood. -Carina Trimingham.
Tracks Blue Valentine
- Romeo Is Bleeding
- Title Track
- Twenty Nine Dollars
- Whistlin' Past The Graveyard
- Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun
- Red Shoes By The Drugstore
- Wrong Side Of The Road
- Kentucky Avenue
- Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
Release date: 1993-01-25
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.44
Review Blue Valentine / Tom Waits:More hard-boiled tales from Tom Waits, who manages to sing lines like "Everyone I know is either dead or in prison" in a raw, whiskey-soaked rasp that sounds both comical and deadly serious. Waits doesn't break any new creative ground here but continues to refine his down-and-out persona. It's booze and broads, sex and violence, laughs and heartbreak. This 1978 album opens with an astonishingly desperate version of "Somewhere" (from "West Side Story"), performed like Louie Armstrong with a migraine. From there it's the usual Waits mix of crackpot wordplay and the cocktail lounge jazz likes of "Romeo Is Bleeding". -Steve Appleford.
Tracks Nighthawks At The Diner
- Eggs and sausages
- Putnam county
- Emotional weather report
- Better off without a wife
- Warm beer and cold women
- Spare Parts II (And Closing)
- On a foggy night
- Nobody
- Nighthawk postcards
- Ballad of Big Joe and Phantom 309
- Spare parts 1
Release date: 1999-10-01
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.93
Review Nighthawks At The Diner / Tom Waits:As tour guide on a trip through the midnight-to-dawn streets of Los Angeles that the beautiful people never see through the smoked- glass windows of their limos, Waits details the lives of hipsters, down-and-outers, and lost causes in latter-day beat poetry and small- jazz-combo arrangements. This live album from 1975 almost has the quality of standup comedy, but the routines are richer and more carefully drawn. Check out the vivid detail, low humor, and hooker- with-a-heart-of-gold emotionalism Waits brings to songs such as "Nighthawk Postcards", "Putnam County", and a memorable reading of trucker poet Red Sovine's "Big Joe and Phantom 309". -Daniel Durchholz.
Tracks Eric Clapton Unplugged
- Running On Faith
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
- Alberta Alberta
- Signe
- Tears In Heaven
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Malted Milk
- Walkin' Blues
- Hey Hey (Baby)
- Before You Accuse Me
- Layla
- Lonely Stranger
- Old Love
Release date: 1992-08-31
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.46
Review Eric Clapton Unplugged / Eric Clapton:Clapton caught the "unplugged" trend just at the right time, when the public was hungry to hear how well rock stars and their material could hold up when stripped of elaborate production values. Clapton himself seemed baffled by the phenomenon, especially when picking up the armload of Grammys Unplugged earned him, including Record and Song of the Year for "Tears in Heaven", the heart-rending elegy to his young son, Conor. That song and a reworked version of "Layla" got most of the attention, but the rest of the album has fine versions of acoustic blues numbers such as "Malted Milk", "Rollin' & Tumblin' and "Before You Accuse Me" that make it worth investigating further. -Daniel Durchholz.
Tracks Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits
- All She Wants To Do Is Dance
- The Heart Of The Matter
- Not Enough Love In The World
- Sunset Grill
- I Will Not Go Quietly
- Everybody Knows
- The Last Worthless Evening
- The End Of The Innocence
- You Don't Know Me At All
- Dirty Laundry
- The Garden Of Allah
- The Boys Of Summer
- New York Minute
Release date: 1999-03-20
Run time: 73 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.76
Review Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits / Don Henley:
Tracks Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994
- If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
- Fragil
- All This Time
- This Cowboy Song
- They Dance Alone
- Why Should I Cry For You?
- When We Dance
- Moon Over Bourbon Street
- We'll Be Together
- Mad About You
- Russians
- If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
- It's Probably Me - Sting, Eric Clapton
- Fields Of Gold
- Love Is The Seventh Wave
- Fragile
- Englishman In New York
Release date: 1999-06-18
Run time: 77 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.95
Review Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994 / Sting:A good overview of Sting's radio hits and popular album tracks with no major omissions, Fields of Gold also offers three previously unreleased songs. "This Cowboy Song" and "When We Dance" appear on no other album, while "We'll Be Together" is an alternate interpretation. The import version of this collection offers a substantially different and expanded track listing, dropping "Fortress Around Your Heart", "Be Still My Beating Heart", and "Why Should I Cry for You"; and adding "Nothing 'Bout Me", "Mad About You", "Seven Days", "It's Probably Me", "Love is the Seventh Wave", and "Demolition Man". -Gavin McNett.
Tracks The Platinum Collection: Face Value / No Jacket Required / ...But Seriously (3CD)
- Saturday Night And Sunday Morning
- One More Night
- Another Day In Paradise
- This Must Be Love
- Sussudio
- Heat On The Street
- I Missed Again
- Hang In Long Enough
- Inside Out
- Who Said I Would
- Droned
- Only You Know And I Know
- That's Just The Way It Is
- Roof Is Leaking
- Hand In Hand
- Colours
- Thunder And Lightning
- We Said Hello Goodbye
- Long Long Way To Go
- Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore
- Something Happened On The Way To Heaven
- Don't Lose My Number
- Father To Son
- Find A Way To My Heart
- Tomorrow Never Knows
- You Know What I Mean
- Take Me Home
- Behind The Lines
- I Wish It Would Rain Down
- I'm Not Moving
- All Of My Life
- If Leaving Me Is Easy
- Do You Remember
- In The Air Tonight
- Don't Want To Know
Release date: 2004-05-31
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.02
Review The Platinum Collection: Face Value / No Jacket Required / ...But Seriously (3CD) / Phil Collins:
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Frank's Wild Years, Back To Front, Best of Chris Isaak, Catch Bull at Four, Moondance, Greatest Hits, The Very Best of Elton John, Lenny Kravitz Greatest Hits, Heartattack and Vine, Escape, The Best of Tom Jones, Slippery When Wet, Teaser and the Firecat, Stanley Road, Blue Valentine, Nighthawks At The Diner, Eric Clapton Unplugged, Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits, Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994, The Platinum Collection: Face Value / No Jacket Required / ...But Seriously (3CD) |
